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EntertainmentDecember 12

Time to flick the switch

Today is the final day Remotely Interesting will be published for the year.

EntertainmentDecember 5

One show standing alone

The show of the moment, the only one that grips me tightly and drags me on a difficult and confusing ride to a place I'm not sure even exists, is 'The Affair'.

EntertainmentNovember 21

Others' affairs gripping

The very best people have dark and shameful secrets.

EntertainmentNovember 14

Pretend for a UK moment

In times of awful world crisis, when the vile, the arrogant and the ignorant prevail, I like to turn to the imagined decency of Great Britain to distract myself from reality.

EntertainmentNovember 7

The last word in weather

Mostly, I know the Chatham Islands as that place that suddenly jerks your attention away from sweet reverie and reminds you you have tried but failed to listen to the Dunedin weather forecast on RNZ.

EntertainmentOctober 10

Classic cool vs evil story

Drama-thriller series Mr Robot had been bubbling away recently as the topic of morning conversation among the cool kids in the Otago Daily Times newsroom.

EntertainmentOctober 3

Dates on camera, blind and tortured

One can only wonder what Jean-Paul Sartre would have made of First Dates New Zealand.

EntertainmentSeptember 12

Criminal what TV is up to

New Zealand's criminal classes are being thoroughly mined for dramatic inspiration this year, with the latest effort, Dirty Laundry, featuring a suburban money launderer as its anti-hero.

EntertainmentSeptember 5

TV review: Mosley strikes again

Michael Mosley has brought to television some of the finest programmes about science known to mankind.

EntertainmentAugust 29

In the realms of the rich

It is sometimes hard for one to feel much in the way of empathy for the fabulously rich.

EntertainmentAugust 22

Diana's death solved? Phew!

Who killed Princess Di?

EntertainmentAugust 15

Vampire comedy gold

TVNZ'S initially confusing Duke channel, described as a male-skewed channel when it began broadcasting earlier this year, is beginning to offer some good stuff.

EntertainmentAugust 8

Brooding over dark goings on

Winter is a difficult time, a time when the troubles of the world can seem to crowd in upon one.

EntertainmentJuly 27

Writers fail good actors

There was a terrible old joke doing the rounds of Andersons Bay Primary School in the 1960s.

EntertainmentJuly 18

Brave men instil hope

I am inclined to approach stories about men, poor behaviour, bullying and the inevitable redemption where people come good with a sense of disquiet.

EntertainmentJuly 14

A show to look out for

When the name David Simon pops up in anything television-related, it is worth taking notice.

EntertainmentJuly 4

Horrors from then and now

Two strange and quite unrelated British comedies have taken our attention this month: one well-known, at least to those of a certain age, and one perhaps not well-known enough.

EntertainmentJune 13

Classic gets telly treatment

The rich are bad, the poor are good, we are all obsessed with blind dates and clothes are really important.

EntertainmentMay 23

Better than Bear ...

There are some fundamental questions about being human that remain unanswered.

EntertainmentMay 9

Status issues for Jon Snow (contains spoilers)

EntertainmentApril 25

The word on driving and weed

Cannabis is a gateway drug.

EntertainmentApril 18

What we really want ...

Here is an important thing to remember about television.

EntertainmentApril 11

Dunedin set to beguile

Here are some good things about TV One's new show Coast New Zealand: Coast New Zealand features Scottish archaeologist and television presenter Neil Oliver, a long-haired gentleman with a strong accent.

EntertainmentApril 4

Nostalgia all about memories

The past was a particularly nostalgic time.

EntertainmentMarch 21

Who is the new Dr Love?

Remotely Interesting can never get enough of Shortland Street, which not only provides regular work for New Zealand actors but is strangely compelling if you watch it while having tea.